County Profile

Cumberland

The most populous county in Maine, Cumberland County is home to the state’s largest city, Portland. About 20% of the state’s population lives in Cumberland County, its largest industries are health care and tourism.

Cumberland

Cumberland County at a Glance:

The estimated poverty rate in Cumberland County is 11.1%.*

Nearly 12% of children under 18 live in poverty.**

18.5% of children in Cumberland County receive SNAP benefits, 34.8% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**

20.4% of children are living with food insecurity.**

The infant mortality rate in Cumberland County is 5.7 per 1,000.**

5 per every 1,000 children in Cumberland County are in DHHS custody.**

33.8% of children in Cumberland County participate in MaineCare.**

35% of people in Cumberland County are not currently in the workforce.*

19.7% of the population is under the age of 18.*

23.7% of the population achieved a high school degree; 44% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*

The high school graduation rate for Cumberland County is 91.4%.**

*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016

**Source: Maine Kids Count

Grants Awarded in this Region

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Award

Description

Location

2020

Amistad

$15,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2020

Catholic Charities Maine

$25,000

To support Cooking for Community, which pays local restaurants to cook easy-to-reheat meals using primarily locally sourced ingredients that are then distributed to food-insecure Mainers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Portland, ME

2020

Falmouth Food Pantry

$9,000

To provide general operating support.

Falmouth, ME

2020

Hope Acts

$20,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2020

Lake Region Senior Service

$10,000

To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options.

Bridgton, ME

2020

Locker Project

$10,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2020

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program

$20,000

To provide general operating support, which will will help sustain eight food programs and enable the rescue of an additional 100,000 pounds of food from new suppliers.

Brunswick, ME

2020

Midcoast Community Alliance

$10,000

To support critical outreach services for at-risk, homeless and/or unaccompanied youth in Sagadahoc County, Brunswick and Harpswell.

Bath, ME

2020

Milestone Foundation

$15,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2020

My Place Teen Center

$10,000

To provide general operating support.

Westbrook, ME

2020

Portland Community Health Center

$25,000

To provide general operating support.

South Portland, ME

2020

Portland Public Library

$25,000

To support Portland Public Library's Social Worker in Residence, who works to connect the library's most vulnerable low-income patrons to social services and basic need supports.

Portland, ME

2020

Salvation Army

$5,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2020

Shalom House

$10,000

To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted.

Portland, ME

2020

Spurwink Services

$25,000

To provide support for The Bridge Fund, an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted.

Portland, ME

2020

The Gathering Place

$5,000

To support an emergency overnight shelter in Brunswick that is open to homeless and housing insecure people when temperatures are dangerously low.

Brunswick, ME

2020

The Progress Center

$15,000

To provide general operating support.

Oxford, ME

2020

The Root Cellar

$25,000

To provide general operating support to address the food insecurity of families in the Tree Streets and Bayside neighborhoods in Lewiston and Portland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lewiston, ME

2019

Amistad

$15,000

To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME

2019

Avesta Housing Development Corporation

$25,000

To support formerly homeless people who are transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing through an expansion of services in southern Maine.

Portland, ME

2019

Furniture Friends

$10,000

To provide general operating support.

Westbrook, ME

2019

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England

$55,000

To provide support to the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth, mostly public school students in Portland, with paid learning opportunities.

Gorham, ME

2019

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project

$25,000

To provide support for new staff to assist asyslees coming into Portland.

Portland, ME

2019

Lake Region Senior Service

$10,000

To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options.

Bridgton, ME

2019

Maine Initiatives

$15,000

To support the Solidarity Fund, which will distribute funds to key Maine -based immigrant-led nonprofits doing crucial work with recently arrived asylees.

Portland, ME

2019

Maine Inside Out

$65,000

To both support the work of their Leadership Council, which develops the leadership and social capital of formerly incarcerated young people, and to support organizational efforts for financial management assistance.

Portland, ME

2019

Maine Inside Out

$4,000

To bring a performance of Maine Inside Out's play "EXPOSED" to the Statewide Juvenile Justice Task Force's meeting in Augusta in fall of 2019.

Portland, ME

2019

MapleStone

$13,000

To support the provision of mental health counseling and supports for students who have experienced trauma / Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Acton, ME

2019

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program

$15,000

To support general operating costs associated with programs offered to low-income food-insecure Mainers in the midcoast area.

Brunswick, ME

2019

Milestone Foundation

$15,000

To provide support for the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team, which provides mobile health care, outreach, crisis intervention, and referral services for homeless adults in Portland.

Portland, ME

2019

Portland Housing Authority

$75,000

To support continued funding to enhance and expand PHA's Family Self Sufficiency Program.

Portland, ME

2019

Portland Public Library

$25,000

To support Portland Public Library's Social Worker in Residence, who works to connect the library's most vulnerable low-income patrons to social services and basic need supports.

Portland, ME

2019

Portland Public Schools

$100,000

To provide support for the Portland Public Schools' Equity Specialist position, who plays a key role in harnessing the resources, partners and internal stewards of the district's equity work.

Portland, ME

2019

Portland Public Schools - Riverton Elementary School

$25,000

To support the planning process to become a Community School.

Portland, ME

2019

Preble Street

$10,000

To support the purchase of food through Preble Street's emergency food programs' Asylee Assistance Project.

Portland, ME

2019

Prosperity ME

$15,000

To support the provision of financial and housing education activities within Maine's immigrant, refugee and asylee communities.

Portland, ME

2019

Shalom House

$10,000

To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted.

Portland, ME

2019

South Portland Food Cupboard

$15,000

To provide support for general operations.

SOUTH PORTLAND, ME

2019

Tedford Housing

$15,000

To provide general operating support.

Brunswick, ME

2019

The Center for Grieving Children

$10,000

To provide food and transportation services to low-income New Mainer youth participants of the Intercultural Peer Support Program.

Portland, ME

2019

The Opportunity Alliance

$25,000

To provide financial supports to individuals and families at risk of homelessness in order to maintain and/or secure their housing.

South Portland, ME

2019

The Progress Center

$15,000

To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition.

Norway, ME

2019

The Root Cellar

$20,000

To support the Friends and Neighbors Network food model, which places recipients in charge of their own food needs through their active participation in the program with other neighbors.

Lewiston, ME

2019

Through These Doors (formerly Family Crisis Services)

$15,000

To support the provision of food for domestic violence shelter residents and to provide one-time financial assistance for basic needs such as food, clothing, medication or transportation.

Portland, ME

2019

United Way of Greater Portland

$125,000

To support the work of the Thrive2027 Coalition's efforts to ensure that children in Greater Portland have access to quality early learning experiences and that individuals and families have opportunities and resources to achieve financial stability.

Portland, ME

2019

United Way of Greater Portland

$25,000

To support Women United and their two-generation work in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood.

Portland, ME

2019

United Way of Greater Portland

$15,000

To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2019 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2019

United Way of Greater Portland

$225,000

To support Portland ConnectED, a set of city-wide cradle-to-career strategies designed to impact kindergarten readiness, grade level reading, and postsecondary completion.

Portland, ME

2018

Amistad

$15,000

To provide support for general operations.

Portland, ME

2018

Bath Housing Development Corporation

$40,000

Two year grant to support the Comfortably Home program, which increases housing stability of low-income, elderly homeowners by increasing safety, minimizing maintenance burden, and lengthening tenure in their own homes.

Bath, ME

2018

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine

$115,000

To support Project Aim High, an engagement program for middle school aged students in Lewiston, Portland and South Portland.

Portland, ME

2018

City of Portland

$21,974

To provide funding for a Lead Poisoning Public Outreach Mixed Media Campaign.

Portland, ME

2018

Conservation Law Foundation

$20,000

To provide support for lead poisoning prevention, research, advocacy and technical assistance in Lewiston-Auburn and Portland.

Boston, MA

2018

Cultivating Community

$25,000

To provide access to free, healthy food in Cumberland and Androscoggin Counties.

Portland, ME

2018

Falmouth Food Pantry

$10,000

To provide food to food-insecure families from Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Westbrook, and Portland.

Falmouth, ME

2018

Frannie Peabody Center

$20,000

To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling support for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Maine.

Portland, ME

2018

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England

$90,000

To provide support to the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth, mostly public school students in Portland, with paid learning opportunities.

Portland, ME

2018

Greater Portland Family Promise

$20,000

To support the general operations of Greater Portland Family Promise -- providing families who are experiencing homelessness with shelter, food, case management, and community support while helping them establish a sustainable living situation.

Portland, ME

2018

Intercultural Community Center

$20,000

To provide general operating support.

Westbrook, ME

2018

Jobs for Maine's Graduates

$300,000

Two year grant to support the Expanded Opportunity Passport program -- a financial capacity building, education, and matched savings program expanded to non-foster care youth who face challenges or have little or no family support.

Augusta, ME

2018

Lake Region Senior Service

$7,000

To provide support for the general operations of a transportation program serving low-income seniors and disabled residents throughout four counties in Southwestern Maine.

Bridgton, ME

2018

LearningWorks

$25,000

To provide support for an intensive, interactive English Language and Literacy Instruction Program to address barriers to employment typically encountered by New Mainers.

Portland, ME

2018

Maine Access Immigrant Network

$10,000

To support direct services for low-income refugee and immigrant communities of Greater Portland -- such as help securing health, housing, energy, transportation and other related basic needs.

Portland, ME

2018

Maine Inside Out

$48,500

To support Maine Inside Out's Leadership Council, which is a year-long effort to develop the leadership, professional experience and social capital of formerly incarcerated older youth.

Portland, ME

2018

Maine School Administrative District 75

$4,300

To provide funds to defray insurance co-payment expenses for low-income students accessing mental health counseling at the School-Based Health Center at Mt. Ararat High School.

Topsham, ME

2018

Mercy Hospital

$50,000

To support two-generation behavioral health interventions and programming at Mercy Hospital's McAuley Residence, a residential treatment home for women with co-occuring substance abuse and mental health diagnoses and their children.

Portland, ME

2018

Milestone Foundation

$25,000

To provide support for the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter.

Portland, ME

2018

Muskie School of Public Service

$75,000

To support the work of the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network, to include place-based work with vulnerable older youth in greater Portland and Sanford and youth leadership and engagement work across the Network.

Portland, ME

2018

Pine Tree Legal Assistance

$315,000

Two year grant to support the existing medical-legal lead hazard partnership in Lewiston and to replication the project in the Portland area.

Portland, ME

2018

Portland Community Health Center

$25,000

To provide support for mental health services at school-based health centers at Portland's three high schools.

Portland, ME

2018

Portland Housing Authority

$100,000

To replicate Bangor Housing Authority's successful enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program at the Portland Housing Authority.

Portland, ME

2018

Preble Street

$25,000

To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs: the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen.

Portland, ME

2018

Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast

$19,500

To support, and to leverage a Department of Corrections investment in, a Lewiston-based Youth Court Early Intervention and Equal Opportunity Diversion program.

Belfast, ME

2018

Shalom House

$15,000

To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted.

Portland, ME

2018

Tedford Housing

$15,000

To provide general operating support for the provision of case management services to homeless children and their families.

Brunswick, ME

2018

The Opportunity Alliance

$20,000

To provide support for the Homelessness Prevention Project, which provides financial resources to low-income, at-risk families and youth so they can maintain and/or secure housing.

South Portland, ME

2018

The Progress Center

$25,000

To support a community kitchen program distributing healthy food to low-income people in Oxford County, including home-delivered meals to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition.

Norway, ME

2018

The Root Cellar

$24,500

To provide food through the Friends and Neighbors Network to food insecure families in Lewiston and Portland.

To support Women United and their two-generation work in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood.

Portland, ME

2018

United Way of Greater Portland

$150,000

To support Starting Strong, a subcommittee of ConnectED's cradle-to-career initiative, supporting Portland's students ages 0-8 in the areas of grade-level reading, school readiness, and summer learning.

Portland, ME

2018

United Way of Greater Portland

$100,000

To support Thrive2027's initatives advancing grade level reading by third grade and education and employment opportunities in Greater Portland.

Portland, ME

2018

United Way of Greater Portland

$125,000

To serve as a match for new contributions to UWGP's Thrive2027 efforts to advance grade level reading by third grade and increase education and employment opportunities in Greater Portland.

Portland, ME

2018

United Way of Greater Portland

$15,000

To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2018 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2018

Wayside Food Programs

$15,000

To provide general operating support to increase access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food in Cumberland, Oxford, and York counties.

Portland, ME

2017

Amistad

$15,000

For general operating support.

Portland, ME

2017

Aspen Institute

$50,000

To support the engagement of southern rural Maine in the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund grantee network.

To provide local food for people with low to no income, including asylum-seekers.

Portland, ME

2017

Furniture Friends

$10,000

For general operating support.

Westbrook, ME

2017

Gedakina

$20,000

To support the LifeWays Program, which focuses on increased access to direct services for Native American families in Portland and Bangor.

Bangor, ME

2017

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England

$100,000

To support the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth to paid summer learning opportunities.

Portland, ME

2017

Intercultural Community Center

$50,000

To support a summer academic enrichment program targeted to served the needs of immigrant children in Portland and Westbrook.

Westbrook, ME

2017

Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine

$15,000

To provide support for JCA's food and diaper pantry.

Portland, ME

2017

Lake Region Senior Service

$9,000

For general operating support.

Bridgton, ME

2017

Locker Project

$5,000

For general operating support.

Portland, ME

2017

Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services

$50,000

For general operating support.

Lewiston, ME

2017

Mercy Hospital

$15,000

To provide support for their Patient Assistance Fund for adults in treatment for cancer or blood disorders who need financial help to defray the cost of non-medical expenses.

Portland, ME

2017

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program

$10,000

For general operating support.

Brunswick, ME

2017

Milestone Foundation

$15,000

For general operating support.

Portland, ME

2017

Portland Adult Education

$25,000

To provide education, employment and financial literacy services to New Americans in greater Portland.

Portland, ME

2017

Portland Community Health Center

$25,000

To provide funding for a social worker to focus on trauma screening with all new pediatric patients.

Portland, ME

2017

Preble Street

$25,000

To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen.

Portland, ME

2017

Preble Street

$296,000

To support Preble Street's First Place, a transition-in-place housing program for homeless youth, and for the expansion of the transition-in-place model through the Maine Transitional Living Collaborative.

Portland, ME

2017

Preble Street

$65,000

To provide support for the transition of the older youth at the First Place Transitional Housing program into stable housing.

Portland, ME

2017

Tedford Housing

$15,000

For general operating support.

Brunswick, ME

2017

Telling Room

$29,950

To provide project-based summer literacy programming and creative writing instruction to English Language Learners and other under-resourced elementary and middle school students in the Greater Portland and Bangor areas.

Portland, ME

2017

Tri-County Mental Health Services

$25,000

To provide intensive family and community-based treatment for chronic and violent juvenile offenders.

Lewiston, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$25,000

To support the Women United two generation strategy.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$141,000

To enable UWGP to serve as the backbone organization for the Greater Portland Workforce Initiative.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$175,000

To support Starting Strong's strategies in 2017-2018.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$100,000

To support Portland Public School's development and implementation of district-wide social-emotional learning strategies.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$100,000

To support Portland Public School's development and implementation of district-wide equity in learning strategies.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$150,000

To serve as a match for new and increased 2017 Annual Campaign pledges.

Portland, ME

2017

United Way of Greater Portland

$15,000

Support for United Way's 2017 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2016

Amistad

$15,000

General operating support to address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges.

Portland, ME

2016

Avesta Housing Development Corporation

$25,000

To provide support for people transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing in Portland.

Portland, ME

2016

Bath Housing Development Corporation

$25,000

To provide comprehensive technical assistance services to four Maine Public Housing Authorities as they replicate Bath Housing’s Community Aging in Place Program.

Bath, ME

2016

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine

$38,315

For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Lewiston, Portland and South Portland.

To provide support for a community kitchen program serving children, youth and families in Norway.

Norway, ME

2016

United Way of Greater Portland

$175,000

For Starting Strong, Portland’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading initiative, which works to ensure Portland students are reading at grade level by the end of third grade.

Portland, ME

2016

United Way of Greater Portland

$250,000

Matching grant for the 2016 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2016

United Way of Greater Portland

$12,500

To support the 2016 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2016

Westbrook Community Services

$20,000

To provide support for families who need help with basic needs and services to navigate through the initial months of relocation such as school transitions and medical care.

Westbrook, ME

2015

Amistad

$25,000

To address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; develop peer services; and advocate for changes to the mental health system.

Portland, ME

2015

Boy Scouts of America

$15,750

To expand services to boys with low-incomes in Portland, Biddeford and Saco; and to allocate additional resources for Somali youth in Lewiston.

Raymond, ME

2015

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine

$35,000

To address summer learning loss by implementing the Brain Gain Reads program for students entering grades K through 3 in Portland, South Portland and Lewiston/Auburn.

Portland, ME

2015

City of Portland

$14,750

To incorporate literacy-related programming into Camp Play-All-Day, a summer program serving up to 150 children entering first and second grade.

Portland, ME

2015

Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

$55,250

To support activities for the second year of the Portland Jobs Alliance.

Brunswick, ME

2015

Cultivating Community

$25,000

To support programs that increase access to healthy food.

Portland, ME

2015

Educate Maine

$198,000

Two year grant to serve as the fiscal sponsor for Count Me In, an initiative focused on partnering with school districts and communities to decrease chronic absenteeism by implementing evidence-based practices.

Portland, ME

2015

Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges

$40,646

To support an automotive technician training program.

South Portland, ME

2015

Lake Region Senior Service

$5,000

To support transportation programs for low-income seniors, disabled citizens, and cancer patients.

Bridgton, ME

2015

LearningWorks

$51,000

To support a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices.

Portland, ME

2015

Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services

$20,000

Two year grant to provide cultural brokering and interpretation services for a juvenile justice collaborative in Lewiston.

Lewiston, ME

2015

MaineHealth Care At Home

$25,000

To support the Pediatric Social Work/Navigator Program, which helps children and families coping with the challenges of cancer; and the Pediatric Telehealth Oncology Program, which allows families to access care from their homes.

Saco, ME

2015

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program

$20,000

To support programs that provide food to low-income families.

Brunswick, ME

2015

Milestone Foundation

$25,000

To support the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter.

Portland, ME

2015

Muskie School of Public Service

$119,500

Two year grant to support the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network’s implementation plan to provide comprehensive, coordinated supports and opportunities to vulnerable older youth.

Portland, ME

2015

My Place Teen Center

$12,000

To develop an outcomes data and measurement system.

Westbrook, ME

2015

Peregrine Corp.

$20,000

To support the renovation and repair needs for their South Portland building.

South Portland, ME

2015

Portland Adult Education

$172,985

To make programmatic and instructional improvements, that reflect best practices, to the adult English for Speakers of Other Languages programs.

Portland, ME

2015

Portland Adult Education

$94,000

To enhance and expand services for low- to moderate-income individuals in Portland.

Portland, ME

2015

Portland Public Library

$8,000

To launch a series of book discussions on the national bestselling book Being Mortal, which deals with end-of-life issues.

Portland, ME

2015

Portland Public Schools

$100,000

To provide a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices.

Portland, ME

2015

Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce

$10,000

To support the Growing Portland initiative and the continued planning and implementation of the economic development work plan for Portland and the region.

Portland, ME

2015

Preble Street

$50,000

To support the Emergency Food Program.

Portland, ME

2015

RSU 14

$15,000

To support the district's backpack program, which provides food to food-insecure children over weekends and holidays throughout the school year.

Windham, ME

2015

Shalom House

$25,000

To support programs that find stable housing and support services for long-term homeless individuals.

Portland, ME

2015

South Portland Food Cupboard

$10,000

To support the purchase and distribution of nutritious foods to those in need in South Portland.

South Portland, ME

2015

Southern Maine Community College Foundation

$39,800

To support MySuccess in the 2016-2017 school year.

South Portland, ME

2015

Tedford Housing

$22,500

To support mental health services for clients at the Cumberland Street Emergency Housing Shelter in Brunswick.

Brunswick, ME

2015

The Center for Grieving Children

$20,000

To support the Tender Living Care Program, which provides education and emotional support to families when a parent or caregiver is diagnosed with a life impacting illness, including cancer.

Portland, ME

2015

The Opportunity Alliance

$20,000

To support the Children's Outpatient Therapy program, which provides mental health assessment and treatment services to children and their families.

South Portland, ME

2015

The Opportunity Alliance

$80,000

For capacity building.

South Portland, ME

2015

The Root Cellar

$10,000

To provide funding to purchase food for families in Portland and Lewiston.

Portland, ME

2015

United Way of Greater Portland

$75,000

To support Starting Strong - a community based effort to improve academic achievemnet.

Portland, ME

2015

United Way of Greater Portland

$63,500

For capacity building related to the Community Goal Setting Process and Implementation.

Portland, ME

2015

United Way of Greater Portland

$250,000

Matching grant for the 2015 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2015

United Way of Greater Portland

$25,000

To support the Campaign for Grade Level Reading.

Portland, ME

2015

United Way of Greater Portland

$12,500

To support the 2015 Annual Campaign.

Portland, ME

2015

University of New England

$25,000

To provide incentives that will increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables for participants in a SNAP benefit study.

Biddeford, ME

2014

Amistad

$15,000

To provide operating support for individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; to develop peer services; and to advocate for changes to the mental health system.

Portland, ME

2014

Avesta Housing Development Corporation

$25,000

To provide for conceptual site plans and a study for the redevelopment of land to allow for the expansion of services to people with low income.

Portland, ME

2014

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine

$46,800

To address summer learning loss through the implementation of Brain Gain Reads, a program focused on literacy enrichment for students K – 3.

Portland, ME

2014

Center for Applied Linguistics

$14,610

To design and conduct an evaluation of Portland Public School System’s Adult Education English Language Learner Program.

Washington, DC

2014

Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

$75,106

To support employer outreach, data maintenance and the coordination of partnerships within the Portland Jobs Alliance.

Brunswick, ME

2014

Cultivating Community

$20,000

For a community initiative that promotes access to locally grown and healthy foods in Portland Public Schools.

Portland, ME

2014

Day One

$20,000

To provide funding to support staff and program costs for mental health and case management services to immigrant and refugee street and homeless youth.

South Portland, ME

2014

Educate Maine

$99,000

To act as fiscal sponsor for the implementation team of Count ME In, a data-driven community based model to address the problem of chronic absenteeism in Maine.

Portland, ME

2014

Freeport Community Services

$15,000

To provide funding to support staff and programs which provide direct services to the most vulnerable residents of Freeport and Pownal, including low-income seniors and children.

Freeport, ME`

2014

Furniture Friends

$10,000

To provide general operating support to supply and deliver free furniture to people in need in the Greater Portland area.

Westbrook, ME

2014

Hospice of Southern Maine

$15,000

To provide operating support for medical, emotional, and spiritual services for cancer patients who are seriously ill with a terminal diagnosis.

To provide funding for pediatric social work services to support children and their families navigating the challenges of cancer.

Saco, ME

2014

Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program

$15,000

To provide operating support for programs that provide food to low-income families.

Brunswick, ME

2014

Midcoast Maine Community Action

$15,000

To provide funding to support families and individuals with emergency needs and complete accessibility repairs to enable the elderly to remain at home.

Bath, ME

2014

Milestone Foundation

$15,000

To provide funding to support homeless individuals in Portland experiencing chronic health and substance use issues.

Portland, ME

2014

Portland Adult Education

$104,100

To support employment case management services, to provide soft skills and job readiness skills employment workshops, and to expand the hours for the John T. Gorman Computer Lab to serve waitlisted students and job seekers.

Portland, ME

2014

Portland Public Schools

$15,000

To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss.

Portland, ME

2014

Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce

$10,000

To provide organizational and staffing support for Growing Portland, a collaborative effort among universities, businesses, research institutions and others to create and implement an economic development work plan for Portland and the region.

Portland, ME

2014

Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce

$82,320

To provide organizational and staffing support for the Portland Workforce Initiative, which seeks to create a coordinated continuum of education, training and other services designed to connect marginalized, unemployed populations to employment opportunities in Portland.

Portland, ME

2014

Regional Transportation Program

$15,000

To provide funding for transportation for the elderly, social service agency clients, the economically disadvantaged, and people with disabilities throughout Cumberland county.

To provide funding for staffing for sexual assault education and services specific to homeless and at-risk youth.

Portland, ME

2014

South Portland Food Cupboard

$10,000

To provide food to low income seniors with physical limitations.

South Portland, ME

2014

Southern Maine Agency on Aging

$20,000

To provide support to reduce re-hospitalization rates of high-risk Medicare patients by providing home-delivered meals after discharge from the hospital.

Scarborough, ME

2014

Southern Maine Community College Foundation

$125,000

Two year grant to provide for a bridge program called MySuccess for youth transitioning from Portland Public Schools to SMCC in the fall of 2014 and 2015.

South Portland, ME

2014

Sweetser

$20,000

To provide one-time support for increased staff time to serve adults experiencing serious mental illness who are in need of more intensive care.

Saco, ME

2014

Tedford Housing

$20,000

To provide funding for residential support services to adults in the emergency housing shelter.

Brunswick, ME

2014

The Opportunity Alliance

$15,000

To provide funding to support mental health assessment and treatment services for children and their families.

South Portland, ME

2014

The Opportunity Alliance

$70,400

To support the technical assistance needed to bring and fully integrate a Results Based Accountability framework throughout the organization.

South Portland, ME

2014

The Opportunity Alliance

$162,000

To secure technical assistance to analyze current business practices and implement best practice recommendations agency-wide.

South Portland, ME

2014

The Opportunity Alliance

$16,000

To help families enroll in the Harold Alfond College Challenge savings program, as well as to provide ongoing education and support to families.

South Portland, ME

2014

United Way of Greater Portland

$200,000

Two year grant to support Portland ConnectEd, a cross-sector partnership committed to building a citywide cradle-to-career infrastructure and culture to support high quality education.

Portland, ME

2014

United Way of Greater Portland

$50,000

To support Starting Strong’s priority strategies that have a significant impact on third grade reading proficiency, school readiness, attendance, and summer learning.

Portland, ME

2014

United Way of Greater Portland

$75,000

To provide staffing and other support to Starting Strong, an initiative in Portland to increase third grade reading proficiency.

Portland, ME

2014

United Way of Greater Portland

$12,500

To support the 2014/2015 annual campaign.

Portland, ME

2014

United Way of Greater Portland

$41,000

To implement the Feeding Bodies Feeding Minds program, to support summer learning awareness activities, and to conduct a summer learning community scan.

Portland, ME

2014

Wayside Food Programs

$15,000

To provide general operating support to support the provision of nutritious food in Cumberland County to those in need.

Portland, ME

2013

American Cancer Society

$25,000

To support two patient navigator programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General.

Framingham, MA

2013

Amistad

$25,000

To provide a free basic breakfast to individuals at the Peer Support and Recovery Center.

Portland, ME

2013

Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

$600,000

A three year grant to develop the organizational infrastructure required to best deploy capital to vulnerable populations in Lewiston, Portland, Machias, and Skowhegan.

Brunswick, ME

2013

Day One

$25,000

To provide mental health counseling to youth in Greater Portland.

South Portland, ME

2013

Easter Seals Maine

$25,000

To provide Early Intervention services such as preventative physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies to disadvantaged children from birth to age 5 with disabilities, special needs, and various mental illnesses.

Portland, ME

2013

Frannie Peabody Center

$25,000

To provide direct services for clients living with co-occurring mental illness and HIV/AIDS.

Portland, ME

2013

King Middle School

$15,000

To provide support for teachers to attend trainings and for continued implementation of Student Centered Assessments to help raise math and reading scores of underserved students.

Portland, ME

2013

Lake Region Senior Service

$5,000

To provide transportation to low-income seniors and disabled citizens and cancer patients.

Bridgton, ME

2013

Lydia Home Association

$180,000

Three year grant to expand programming to serve the Lewiston, Auburn and Portland area and provide temporary supports for children when their families experience periods of substantial stress.

Whiting, ME

2013

MaineHealth Care At Home

$15,000

To support a Patient-centered, evidence based model to improve the quality of home health care to vulnerable elders at risk of hospitalization or facility placement.

Saco, ME

2013

Muskie School of Public Service

$215,000

To support Maine Roads to Quality.

Portland, ME

2013

Muskie School of Public Service

$75,000

To support the Maine Youth Transition Collaborative and facilitation of a community mapping process to document and collect outcomes of the promising programs serving youth in Southern Maine.